Thermal Cycling Performance of SACm® Pb-Free Solder Alloy
The development of SACm® lead-free solder alloy by Indium Corporation’s R&D team was focused around improving the mechanical shock perfo...
PB Free Solder
Military/Aerospace Lead-Free Solder Reliability Still Unproven
Folks, I’m taking a few moments from Wassail Weekend , held annually in my village, Woodstock VT, “The prettiest small town in Americ...
Weigh In on the Lead-Free Soldering Consensus Topics
Folks, Some time ago, I mentioned that I was working on a consensus of the status of lead-free/RoHS compliant assembly. My hope is to find dat...
Lead-Free Consensus Update
Folks, In gathering information on the status of lead-free soldering, some helpful friends pointed out two great sources of information: NA...
Lead-Free Soldering: Striving for a Consensus
Folks, Recently I posted a note about a flurry of Technet posts in which I was misquoted regarding the status of lead-free electro...
Increased Use of Electricity for Lead-Free Soldering Assembly & High-Melt Lead-Free Solders
Folks, An obvious disadvantage of lead-free electronics soldering assembly is that the oven must be hotter and therefore will use more electricity (ve...
Lead-Free Soldering Reliability: Dr. Ron Accused of Being, "Motivated Only by Greed"
Folks, Here is an interesting turn of events related to the reliability of lead-free (Pb-free) soldering reliability....
Peter Borgesen Weighs in on Lead-Free Solder Reliability
Folks, I met Peter Borgesen back in the mid 1980s when he was a research scientist at Cornell working with Professor Che-Yu......
Field Data Encouraging for Lead-Free Solder Reliability
Folks, Although a few have suggested that lead-free reliability is an oxymoron, currently most people that have studied the reliability of SAC3...